Day: December 20, 2019

APNU/AFC Coalition cannot manage Guyana’s oil wealth

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– Jagdeo tells Guyanese diaspora in NY With Guyana expecting to reap massive wealth from its oil-rich ocean floor, former President and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo believes that the governing A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) coalition does not have the vision to manage the country through the economic transformation it is about to experience. In fact, he told the Guyanese diaspora in New York on Saturday that the Government’s economic philosophy is debilitating for Guyana and the country would not progress as long as it was in…

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NY legislator welcomes driver’s licences for undocumented Caribbean immigrants

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A New York State legislator of Jamaican heritage has welcomed the implementation of a law, giving undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants the right to obtain driver’s licences, according to a CMC report. “This year the legislature passed the Green Light Bill which grants undocumented immigrants the right to obtain driver’s licences, and this week that bill went into effect,” Senator Zellnor Y Myrie, whose grandmother hailed from Jamaica, told constituents in an e-mail message. “This is a major victory for immigrant rights and will also improve street safety, lower insurance…

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Guyana’s road carnage continues

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…5 dead in horrific smash-up at Mahaicony Five persons are now dead and four others seriously injured following a collision between a minibus and a lorry on the Fairfield Public Road, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Wednesday morning. Dead are minibus driver Seechan Chandilall, 48, of Lot 102 Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice; Keon Sealey, 33, of Farm, Mahaicony; Alana Vaughn, 31, of Farm, Mahaicony, Ewart Reynlods, 64, of Calcutta Mahaicony, and Maxwell Disreali Thom, 76. Meanwhile, several passengers who were also in the minibus, BRR 5478, were taken…

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Elections…

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…biases Because of the explosion of “open space” offices, technology companies now make glorified “horse blinders” to only allow approved info to be processed by office workers. But long before that, folks in modern societies had “ideological blinders” that literally made them see only what their ideology allowed them to see. Others – bereft of those blinders – were literally spouting nonsense!! And this brings your Eyewitness to the wailing Jeremiahs raising their hands to the heavens – waiting for it to fall – because Boris Johnson’s “posh” Tories captured…

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Convict in wedding house killing appeals conviction, sentence

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After being convicted and sentenced for the lesser count of manslaughter late last month, 38-year-old Rajen Dindial formerly of Lot 653 Section C Block Y, Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) has moved to the Appeal Court, challenging his recent conviction and sentence. Dindial was found guilty of manslaughter whilst on trial at the High Court for the September 3, 2017, Sarron Street Grove, EBD, murder of 25-year-old Alston Henry. He was subsequently sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow. However, in his appeal application, the convict, through…

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Sergeant Clive Clarke awarded Best Cop for A Division

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Over 50 Police officers from the Guyana Police Force’s A Division were on Tuesday recognised for their outstanding performance. Sergeant Clive Clarke, who is attached at the Brickdam Police Station, was awarded Best Cop for A Division. Speaking at the event, which was hosted at the Brickdam Police Station on Tuesday, Police Commissioner Leslie James reflected on the various challenges Police ranks face on a daily basis in the execution of their duties. “I urge that you all remain steadfast and resolute in doing this work,” the Commissioner told the…

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Berbice man sentenced to death for killing US-based Guyanese

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A 29-year-old East Canje, Berbice was on Wednesday sentenced to death for the murder of 45-year-old Samantha Benjamin, a US-based Guyanese. Justice Sandil Kissoon handed down the sentence after Imran Ramsaywack, also called “Coolie Boy” and “Kevin Jones”, was found guilty by a 12-member jury. Ramsaywack denied the murder charge which stated that between March 25 and March 26, 2015, he murdered Benjamin at Buxton, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The prosecution’s case contended that the now-convicted man murdered Benjamin at her Middle Walk, Buxton home and dismembered her body. The…

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Oily…

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…deal by PNC A whole lotta eyebrows were raised when Granger sole-sourced Dr Mark Bynoe to head the Energy Department. Granger’s energy advisor complained that the post was supposed to be advertised. The man was an “Environment and Resource Economist” and had been in charge of Caricom’s Climate Change Centre!! It’s as if there weren’t other options – you had the eminently qualified Dr Vincent Adams with 3 decades’ experience with the US Department of Energy!! Ah…but he was from the AFC! He was fobbed off to the Environmental Protection…

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State to deliver the good life

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We hope with the official launch of the campaigns, the major parties will make their position clear on the role of government in the development of the economy. Do we continue with the neo-liberal “night-watchman” state we accepted with the IMF’s Washington Consensus in 1989? Or do we accept the latter’s changed position of the present, where they took heed of the collapse of the model in 2008 and proposed the more interventionary state model from the Far-Eastern example of Japan, South Korea et al? With the imminent coming of…

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